• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    control every aspect of private life

    I’m not arguing for a golden middle, no need to strawman me. I’m saying that sweeping generalizations like above are just circlejerks.

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      10 months ago

      They are literally trying to control what clothes you can wear and what words you can use to refer to yourself.

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        10 months ago

        Are they trying to control what breakfast you eat? How you tie your shoes? What music you listen to?

        Extrapolating from a few cases to claim there’s a broad trend is lazy thinking. In the context of political discourse, it creates echochambers, misunderstanding, and hatred. Like conservatives who say “all liberals want to murder babies”